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PORTFOLIO & CV/RESUME

BIODATA

Associate Professor of electronic and new media arts, transmedia explorer and jolly good bundles of energy in myriads of continuously emerging positive frequencies. A stubborn idealist, persistent gardener of fine heart and mindfull neural innernet through his Kebun Jiwa Halus. Love and happy to connect with likewise frequencies within and across the vast transhuman universal consciousness. He feels that humanity as a form of neural network is currently experiencing a toxic discharge of healing crisis, a prelude for post info-age global awakening and return to quantum Oneness. He is currenty mastering the zen of doing no-thing, whilst enjoying the bliss of being and living in the moment of now and every now.

BAYANG PANJANG (LONG SHADOW)

The youngest son of Saidon Pandak Noh and Jamaliah Noordin, Hasnul received his initial Diploma in Art & Design (Fine Art) from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in 1988, followed by a BFA in Painting from Southern Illinois University USA in 1991 and an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA in 1993.

Throughout his creative practice, Hasnul has been engaged in various states of trans-media and trans-disciplinary creative practices. Amongst them include working in painting, drawing, installation, digital print, video and new media art, exhibition design, stage design, graphic and communication design. Known as one of the early proponents of electronic, video and new media art in Malaysia and South East Asia, Hasnul has also participated in many international and local exhibitions and screenings, including for example, the 2nd. Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane Australia. His works have been exhibited and screened in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Hawaii, Republic of Cezch, Denmark, Spain, Sweeden, Canada and the United States of America.

Hasnul's key academic contribution centered around devising and teaching courses that merge creative practice, new media technology with critical theories and cultural studies such as media & process, expanded media, electronic art, advanced electronic art, new media theory and criticism, history of new media, digital design, cross-cultural design and experimental video at several key institutions of higher learning in Malaysia which include UiTM, UNIMAS, Cenfad and USM. Hasnul had also taught drawing and painting at these institutions.

Hasnul's academic contributions can be traced through his appointment as the Head of Fine Art Program (1997-1998) and Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Applied & Creative Arts, UNIMAS (1999-2000); Head of Design & New Media department at Cenfad (2000-2001); Chairman of Design Department (2003-2004), Deputy Dean of Arts & Cultural Development (2004-2005) at the School of the Arts, USM ; Director of Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah (MGTF, Tuanku Fauziah Museum & Gallery) USM (2005-2012). He was also the Vice-President of UMnet interim committee (University Museum Network Southeast Asia) (2010-1011), board member of the Penang State Museum & Gallery (2006-2012), a member of the National Visual Art Development Board (2012-2013/2015-2017) and a panel member of the National Heritage Objects (Fine Art) (2010-2012).

He has a vast practical and hands-on experience in visual arts education and curriculum development as implied by his appointment as the chairman of curriculum design development committees for degree programs in Integrated Arts at UNIMAS (1997) and New Media Design & Technology at USM (2004), advisory panel, program and course evaluator for proposed Diploma in Animation at ASWARA (2011), degree program in Visual Art Technology at UMS (2012) , key courses in Creative Technology & Heritage Program UMK (2011) and UPSI (2004), external examiner for undergraduate projects and graduate theses for UM, UNIMAS and UMS (since 2006) and curriculum development panel member for Fine Art Program, UNIMAS (1994-1998), New Media Design, Cenfad (2000), Visual Art Technology Program, UMS (2004), and Fine art Program, ASWARA(2006). Hasnul had also been invited several times as a visiting lecturer in Media & Process and Expanded Media at UNIMAS. These programs have churned out new generations of lecturers, researchers, art administrators, curators, designers, writers, visual artists, heads of art department and even a Deputy Vice-Chancellor.

Hasnul's services in the field of creative practice and visual art are attested by his appointment as the Director and Chairman of Sparkles in Penang for 1MCAT (1 Malaysia Contemporary Art Tourism) 2010, Insights Penang for 1MCAT 2011 and reGENEration Penang 1MCAT 2012. He has also been sought after for his advise, consultation and expertise on many different dimensions of creative practice and visual art in Malaysia by individuals, schools, organizations, private and government institutions. He has also contributed significantly in the success of several visual artists in Malaysia through his curatorial works and writings.

Hasnul has written and edited several books and numerous articles on different aspects of contemporary art practice in Malaysia. His research interests include electronic, video and new media art practice in Malaysia, trans-disciplinary practice and the convergence of the arts and sciences, creativity and spirituality, curatorial paradigm, exhibition design and technology, audience research, collection management, museum and gallery transformation. In 2003, he was awarded a researcher in residence grant by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, to study new media art practice in Japan. Hasnul has also been invited as a lead researcher, guest writer and curator for several exhibition projects by the National Visual Art Gallery of Malaysia as well as numerous other public and private galleries. He has presented papers in many countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, the Philippines, Japan and China.

From 2005 until 2012, Hasnul expanded his frequencies into the domain of obscured dwellers in the vicinity of MGTF USM, Penang, under the pretext of his position then as the Director of the Museum. For seven years, MGTF USM was his creative playground, experimental site, research lab and data repository for a sustainable museum & gallery transformation.

Hasnul's current creative engagements have shifted to what he refers to as 'heART-based' living and being, centered on the frequency of 'belas' or 'love and compassion'. He has re-defined his creative role as a 'heartist-educator' under the name Kebun Jiwa Halus. His current works focus on exploring the healing potential of creative trans-media and trans-disciplinary practices, mostly outside gallery-based setting and paradigm. The practices involve a combination of visual arts with short film, spoken storytelling, live song performance, improvised and inclusive sound garden or 'soundscaping', video mapping and creative wellness workshop for children.

When life is more forgiving, Hasnul can be seen tending his garden or decorating his home. He is also a full-time husband, blessed with a faithful wife and three beautiful princesses.

When his quantum fluctuations are silenced, Hasnul likes to reflects upon the fact that his creative practice had at times saved him from his own self, his fluctuating temperament, lousy self financial management and unpredictable compulsion.